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Expression of Ideas practice question

The archive's 1790 map shows no bridge at the ford, and historians had taken this to mean none existed. ____ the surveyor's own notebook, found in 2021, records that he omitted the bridge deliberately because it was 'in ruin and not to be relied on' — which means there was one, and that it was already old.

Which choice completes the text with the most logical transition?

  1. A. As it turns out,Correct
  2. B. Accordingly,
  3. C. For that reason,
  4. D. In short,

Answer: A. As it turns out,

New evidence reverses the reading of the old.

Why the other answers are wrong

B. Accordingly,
The notebook does not follow from the historians' reading.
C. For that reason,
Not a consequence.
D. In short,
Not a summary.

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